fonts April 2011

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font packages list
by Akira TAGOH 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Hi, just thought it may be a good idea to put the packages list anywhere, which fonts are used for aliases by default. so I'm trying to generate the list from comps and the fontconfig file (to see the priority and the alias) in a package. Here is the list genereated: https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/f14-defaultinstalledfonts.html That doesn't contain all of font packages but only font packages marked as "mandatory" or "default" in comps. also sorted out against the fontconfig priority. Also the source code is available at: http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=tagoh/public_git/fonts-sig.git;a=tree;f=fo… I'm not checking everything so it might be wrong in some cases. any volunteers to check are always welcome :) Cheers, -- Akira TAGOH

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fc-cache not adding fonts to system.
by Varun Madiath 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi. Pardon me if this isn't the place to ask this, but it was the place I thought was most appropriate after a little looking around. I'm running Fedora 15, which I am dual booting with Windows 7. On my windows partition I've installed a number of Opentype fonts that I own. I created symlinks to these fonts in a directory at ~/.winFonts and then attempted to run fc-cache -fv winFonts. The output showed me that there were a number of new fonts, however I still don't see them in any of the applications I use. Can anyone see what could be going wrong? Sincerely Varun Madiath

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Re: Partially hinted fonts
by Masahiro Sekiguchi 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

> I have noticed that several of the non-Latin fonts we ship in Fedora contain > partial hinting information, usually not covering (or covering only very > poorly) the intended target alphabet(s) of the fonts. It is a common practice in so-called CJK regions. > This is a problem because the version of Freetype in Fedora 15 will see that > there is some hinting bytecode and try to use the bytecode interpreter > rather than the autohinter on the entire font. If the relevant characters > are then not actually hinted, those characters will be entirely unhinted, > looking blurry. Hmm. I didn't noticed it. It is really a big problem. With very few exceptions, almost all CJK fonts are *partically* hinted. (I'm not familiar with fonts for other scripts, but I guess there are some more with similar situations.) That means most of the CJK fonts will not work well in Fedora. > According to Freetype upstream, you should remove all hinting bytecode from > the fonts if it's not complete. > Please go through your fonts, especially non-Latin fonts, looking for > hinting bytecode, and if it isn't anywhere near complete, please remove it > from the font. It may be acceptable for a short term workaround, but I don't think it is an appropriate solution. We could remove those partial hints from all the Fedora distributed fonts, but we have no control over other fonts; there are many free or commercial CJK fonts other than those packaged in Fedora, that are partially hinted. If we go you-should- remove-all-partial-hints-if-you-want-to- use-it-on-Fedora direction, Fedora users will be effectively unable to use those fonts, that IMHO is not a good idea. What happens if I propose Fedora to simply exclude those bytecode support in Fedora distribution of FreeType, as in the past?

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